Soft Light, Hard Edges

Cover image for Issue 05, "Soft Light, Hard Edges", showing brutalist concrete architecture.

Issue

05

What happens next? The final issue confronts the preservation battles threatening brutalism's surviving landmarks and the new generation of architects who are picking up where the originals left off — this time with sustainable concrete, different politics, and the benefit of hindsight. The edges are still hard. The light is getting softer.

  • THE EDIT

    THE EDIT

    THE EDIT

Cover photograph of brutalist concrete architecture for the article "Behind the Iron Curtain: The Bold Concrete of the Eastern Bloc".

Behind the Iron Curtain: The Bold Concrete of the Eastern Bloc

Behind the Iron Curtain, concrete carried ideology as well as weight. Eastern Bloc brutalism produced some of the era's strangest, boldest, and most genuinely haunting structures.

Cover photograph of brutalist concrete architecture for the article "Behind the Iron Curtain: The Bold Concrete of the Eastern Bloc".

Behind the Iron Curtain: The Bold Concrete of the Eastern Bloc

Behind the Iron Curtain, concrete carried ideology as well as weight. Eastern Bloc brutalism produced some of the era's strangest, boldest, and most genuinely haunting structures.

Cover photograph of brutalist concrete architecture for the article "Behind the Iron Curtain: The Bold Concrete of the Eastern Bloc".

Behind the Iron Curtain: The Bold Concrete of the Eastern Bloc

Behind the Iron Curtain, concrete carried ideology as well as weight. Eastern Bloc brutalism produced some of the era's strangest, boldest, and most genuinely haunting structures.

Cover image for Issue 05, "Soft Light, Hard Edges", showing brutalist concrete architecture.

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